Free Concert! On Record: Music by Bach and Brahms

Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 3 PM

Come celebrate the music of the spheres with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players!
Our first piece for the afternoon is currently catapulting through space aboard the Voyager spacecraft. In 1977 (40 years ago), NASA compiled a variety of images and sounds onto a “Golden Record.” This gift to potential recipients outside our solar system was meant, in the words of President Jimmy Carter, to represent “our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.”

Selections from the first movement of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 are on the Golden Record.

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2— in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Voyager’s Golden Record into space